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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

National Treasure: Edge of History review – the mindless days of the 90s are back!

Young woman gazes at globe type object she is holding
Derring-do in a modern guise … Lisette Olivera as Jess in National Treasure: Edge of History. Photograph: Brian Roedel/Disney

Do you miss noise and bombast? Do you miss goodhearted, mindless entertainment? Do you miss the 80s? The 90s? Well, take heart, my friends, because they’re all back, courtesy of the new Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History, executive produced by the biggest, swingingest 90s dick of them all, Jerry Bruckheimer.

National Treasure: Edge of History wants you to know that you are here to have fun and that fun you shall have from the off. We open in 2001 with a white-haired Harvey Keitel expositioning into a tape recorder. It saves such a lot of time and effort if you just tell people, you know?

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